Sentences with phrase «run up to the vote»

The woman expected to replace Salmond said she will «follow the mood of the people» if promises made in the run up to the vote are not met.

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According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

Forecasts from groups such as the IMF and OECD in the run - up to the 2016 referendum were dismissed by pro-Brexiteers as «Project Fear» — intentionally over the top forecasts designed the scare the public into voting to remain in the EU.

In the run - up to the Brexit vote, the easy parallel to make from an American point of view is that the Leave camp shared many similarities with the Trump campaign.

Once it's fully up and running, the tokens will be used for everything from paying journalists to serving as voting ballots to decide which projects merit funding.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

Many have criticised Corbyn for running a half - hearted campaign for Britain to stay in the EU leading up to Thursday's referendum, in which the UK shocked the world by voting to leave.

In the run - up to the referendum, chief executive Jamie Dimon warned that up to 4,000 UK jobs out of 16,000 could be lost as a result of a Brexit vote.

U.S. stocks experienced sharp drops in August 2015, when China devalued its currency; in January 2016, as oil prices dropped; in June of 2016, after the «Brexit» vote; and in the run — up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In the run - up to the vote, influential and internationally respected publications like the New York Times, the Economist, and the World Economic Forum, as well as figures and organizations including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and former Bank of Canada and current Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, all warned about the disastrous social and economic consequences of a Leave win.

And it is not just the way he talks about the NRA, although that runs the risk of motivating the group's five million - plus members to show up and vote.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

A number of near - term risks clearly exist for European markets, not least the potential for the United Kingdom to vote to leave the EU in June — particularly if data coming out of Europe deteriorates in the run - up to the referendum or if there is an escalation in the refugee crisis.

The group said the run up to Thursday's vote had already led to «significant uncertainty» across London residential markets.

The christian right held their noses and voted for Romney in the bible belt states and will probably do the same for whomever the GOP digs up to run in 2016.

A campaign that had all the elements of an exciting drama in the run - up to the vote had suddenly materialised into an irrevocable decision in the cold...

They both belive when they die they well have, meet there 7 wives in heven u think that's not a cult?if america votes in a CULT member to run our country the gates of hell well open and we better be ready america.so america there is 2 of them I for one am not well to go back 150 yrs.6 on one off mentality.I grew up around those people and they r sick like the musliums they wear grab also but they hide there's under there clothes.what more r they hiding plenty.ask them how many times they r babtized not in there they take someone elses name everytime they get diped that is why there cult is so big ask one and they well lie or come up with even a bigger lie.they need to be fully investagated ppl.don't let the deep pockets and smile fool u.

This is, in essence, the small - run independent label 7» before Pogba moves on to multi-platinum albums and everybody starts lining up to vote for him.

Matt Ryan ended up running away with the award though, winning with 25 votes compared to Brady's 10.

However, the then opposition New Patriotic Party in the run - up to the 2016 elections took a different stance by promising to restore the allowance if voted into office.

It would mean that suddenly all of the perennially safe seats would be in play - to the extent that everyone who lives in them would get to express a meaningful vote for their next MP - if not on election day, then in the primary running up to it.

Compare this model with that of the current government, whereby we have an unelected body of wealthy individuals, laden with conflicts of interest running the country and forcing through policies made up in a closed room that not one member of the electorate has had an opportunity to vote on.

[2] According to that article, the estimated population of 20 -24 year olds in 2015 was 3,806,471 while only 492,306 applied to register to vote in the months running up to the election.

If she lost the GOP nomination but continued to run as a conservative, with a different candidate on the GOP line, she'd likely split the vote and end up killing any chance for the Republicans to defeat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

to help strengthen support for the party in the run - up to Sunday's vote.

Graham announced in December that he was penning a TV drama about the EU referendum, tackling what happened in the run - up to the vote on 23 June.

The country had already become deeply polarised during the run - up to the plebiscite; in the aftermath of the no vote, it's only getting worse.

I think it would run into a serious problem in that people would have to give up significant quantities of money for a vote that is still fairly unlikely to be the deciding vote in an election.

The higher she can run up her weighted vote tally, the more of her opponents she force to go the petition route — or drop out of the race.

Now there could potentially arise a problem where voters who are contributing nothing at all to running the government are such a big voting bloc they can end up voting themselves more and more money to be spend on themselves (or whatever pet projects it is that they support).

Don't forget to follow up after the vote, particularly if your candidate plans to run again!

I suggested to him that this doesn't make much sense for the Democratic primary since the bulk of the vote comes out of NYC, which explains why all of the Democratic hopefuls — particularly Sen. Eric Schneiderman — are running so hard to the left and playing up issues like Rockefeller Drug Law reform, which has zero to do with the AG's office.

Cuomo's need to run up the vote total created a unique set of circumstances for the WFP.

«Some supporters have urged me to press for a hand recount of the ballots because of voting irregularities, but I ran to stick up for Westchester taxpayers and I can not ask them to pay that bill,» Cohen said.

A genial politician who rose through the ranks of the Senate Democrats before Eliot Spitzer tapped him as a running mate, Paterson was struggling to keep order at the Capitol amid a fiscal crisis and the unsettled Senate, where Smith never seemed to be able to deliver the votes to back up the deals he made.

But it's not just Republicans holding it up — the «democrat» members of the IDC (Independent Democratic Conference), who often align with Republicans in the Senate despite running on Democratic platforms, refuse to bring these to the floor for a vote.

So far I've heard Matt Walter (who departed the state GOP to run Rick Lazio's campaign after a pre-primary shake - up and never returned), Chapin Fay (campaign manager for state comptroller hopeful Harry Wilson), Free Enterprise Fund Executive Director E. O'Brien Murray and (here's a new one) John Rogers, who's currently managing the campaign of Bob Cohen in the yet - undecided 37th SD race where Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer is currently leading by 504 votes.

Stop The War, who in the run up to Wednesday's vote stated «all possible pressure must be put on MPs, particularly Labour MPs», was established by Jeremy Corbyn, led by Jeremy Corbyn and continues to be supported, through fundraising, by Jeremy Corbyn.

In the run - up to this crucial moment, we need clarity as to what the options are and what will happen in the event of a vote to remain or to leave.

Not surprisingly, a State Senate run by Republicans and the IDC has failed to bring the bill up for a vote.

Preumably, the state Conservative Party's nod is up for grabs, since Chairman Mike Long made it clear last year that any Republican who voted «yes» on gay marriage would not be able to run on Row C.

According to an investigation by the Sunday Times and Swansea University, about 6,500 suspect accounts pumped out pro-Corbyn messages and attacked the Conservatives in the run - up to last June's vote.

«All we're asking for is to get it out of committee and let the whole Assembly vote up or down on it, not let it stay there or let time run out on it,» Ratner said.

Vote Leave spent # 2.7 m on the services of Canadian digital agency AIQ in the run - up to the June 2016 EU referendum and the firm has admitted that it also conducted work for Cambridge Analytica's parent firm SCL.

Vote Leave spent # 2.7 m on the services of a Canadian digital agency Aggregate AIQ in the run - up to the June 2016 EU referendum.

When Miss Woerner ran ad after ad after ad about «cleaning up Albany» and to make her first vote to support Mr. Silver she has already sold her vote and sole for what??? To get in good with Mr. Silver, to get on a committee of her liking?to make her first vote to support Mr. Silver she has already sold her vote and sole for what??? To get in good with Mr. Silver, to get on a committee of her liking?to support Mr. Silver she has already sold her vote and sole for what??? To get in good with Mr. Silver, to get on a committee of her liking?To get in good with Mr. Silver, to get on a committee of her liking?to get on a committee of her liking???

Meanwhile, although the Greens are running at much the same share of the vote as the Liberal Democrats, they will do well to pick up a second seat to add to the first they won in 2010.

The run up to the local elections on 4 May saw a clarification in Theresa May's election strategy — or more accurately Lynton Crosby's strategy: a pitch to mop up the UKIP vote by rebranding the Tories as the anti-European, «hard Brexit» and anti-immigration party.

Both the campaigns for and against the alternative vote have become increasingly negative in the run - up to polling day.

UPDATE: A reader reminds me of another troublesome Sampson story that ran in the DN yesterday about how he chose to host a fundraiser at Yankee stadium while his colleagues and Gov. David Paterson were waiting for him up in Albany to negotiate on the budget in advance of the shutdown vote.